Helminths: Difference between revisions

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Platyhelminths (flatworms)
- Trematodes (flukes): non-segmented
  - Lung: Paragonimus species
  - Liver
    - Fasciola hepatica (common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke)
    - Opisthorchis viverrini (Southeast Asian liver fluke)
    - Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese liver fluke)
    - Metorchis conjunctus (Canadian liver fluke)
    - Dicrocoelium dendriticum (lancet liver fluke)
  - Intestinal
  - Blood: Schistosoma species
    - Schistosoma haematobium
    - Schistosoma mansoni
- Cestodes (tapeworms): segmented
  - Pseudophyllideans
  - Cyclophyllideans
    - Intestinal
      - Taenia solium (pork tapeworm)
      - Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm)
      - Hymenolepis nana (dwarf tapeworm)
      - Hymenolepis diminuta
      - Dipylidium caninum
    - Tissue
      - Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid worm)
      - Echinococcus multilocularis (alveolar hydatid disease)
      - Larvareal Taenia solium (cysticercosis)
      - Taenia multiceps and Taenia serialis (multiceps serialis))
Nematodes (roundworms)
- Filarial roundworms
  - Onchocerca volvulus (river blindness)
  - Loa loa (eye worm)
  - Wuchereria bancrofti (lymphatic filariasis)
    - Brugia malayi and Brugia timori (lymphatic filariasis)
  - Mansonella perstans, Mansonella streptocerca, and Mansonella ozzardi
- Non-filarial roundworms
  - Intestinal
    - Ascaris lumbricoides (great roundworm)
    - Necator americanus (New World hookworm)
    - Ancylostoma duodenale (Old World hookworm)
    - Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
    - Trichuris trichuria (whipworm)
    - Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
    - Capillaria species
    - Trichostrongylus species
    - Anisakis species
  - Tissue
    - Trichinella spiralis (pork worm)
    - Ancylostoma braziliense, Ancylostoma caninum, and other spp. (cutaneous larva migrans, creeping eruption)
    - Dracunculus medinensis (Guinea worm)
    - Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati (visceral larva migrans)
    - Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm)
    - Gnathostoma species
    - Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm)
    - Dioctophyme renale (giant kidney worm)

Investigations

Eosinophilia seen in tissue-invasive worms, not in those that live in the gut or in cystic structures

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 **** ''[[Ancylostoma braziliense]]'', ''[[Ancylostoma caninum]]'', and other spp. ([[cutaneous larva migrans]], creeping eruption)
 **** ''[[Dracunculus medinensis]]'' (Guinea worm)
-**** ''[[Toxocara canis]]'' and ''[[Toxocara cani]]'' ([[visceral larva migrans]])
+**** ''[[Toxocara canis]]'' and ''[[Toxocara cati]]'' ([[visceral larva migrans]])
 **** ''[[Angiostrongylus cantonensis]]'' (rat lungworm)
 **** [[Gnathostoma species]]
 **** ''[[Baylisascaris procyonis]]'' (raccoon roundworm)
-**** ''[[Dioctophyme renale]]'' (giant kidney worm))
+**** ''[[Dioctophyme renale]]'' (giant kidney worm)
 == Investigations ==